About me

Juliana Ardila is an Associate Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, NY. Armed with a passion for creativity and beautiful design, she strives to create culturally relevant and authentic work.

Previously at FCB West, Juliana worked on iconic brands such as Levi's, Clorox, Smokey the Bear, Hotwire, and Ghirardelli. While at West, Clorox was named Adweek's 2020 Global Brand of the Year, and FCB was named Adweek's 2020 Global Agency of the Year, Cannes Lions 2019 North American Creative Agency of the Year, and a 2019 Ad Age A-List global top 10.

Juliana is a proud Latina with multicultural expertise, having lived and worked in markets across the globe. She started her career in Bogota, Colombia, where she worked on Toyota, Absolut Vodka, Alpina Foods, and ETB Telecommunications before moving to Dubai to work on the McDonald's account at Leo Burnett.

Juliana's work has been recognized by major advertising awards like Cannes Lions, The One Show, Clio, Dubai Lynx. She was one of 12 women selected for the pilot See It Be It program at Cannes 2014, where she won the first Gold Young Lions in the Creative and Design categories.

In 2020, Juliana was featured as a rising talent in the prestigious Adweek Creative 100 List, as well as being invited to moderate the UN Women's panel at +Cartagena, where she shared the stage with some of the most talented people in the industry who are disrupting gender stereotypes in LATAM.

She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, where she also teaches online Art Direction classes to students in Colombia.